Several empirical works have shown the robust and positive relation between growth and innovation at macroeconomic level and between firm economic performance and innovation at microeconomic level. However, the economists have had less opportunities to study such linkages during severe global...

The shifting of labour demand towards relatively more skilled workers has been a hot issue in the economic field for many years. A consolidated explanation for the upskilling phenomenon is that technological-organisational changes have driven the labour demand with detrimental consequences for...

The shifting of labour demand toward relatively more skilled workers has been a hot issue in the economic field for many years. A consolidated explanation for the upskilling phenomenon is that technological-organisational changes have driven the labour demand with detrimental consequences for...

Il declino della produttivita' e della competitivita' dell'Italia ha radici lontane, che con l'Euro si sono acuite ma di cui l'Euro non tiene responsabilità. Esse sono radicate in fattori strutturali, dal lato della domanda, della distribuzione e dell'innovazione, che hanno posto in crisi la...

La Legge di Stabilita' 2014-2016 elaborata dal Governo italiano ed approvata dal Parlamento e' volta al rispetto dei vincoli previsti dai Trattati europei, e non alla crescita del reddito e dell'occupazione. Cio' nonostante, la Commissione Europea non ha ritenuto di dare "semaforo verde", in...

In recent years, applied studies have shown widespread, profound and increasing heterogeneity across firms in terms of their strategy, organization arrangement and performance. This book investigates the diversity of business firms, offering a picture of the different organizational settings...

Expansionary Austerity, Expansionary Precariousness and the Jobs Act. In the last years of the crisis, the devaluation policy on labour has exacerbated the negative effects of austerity on domestic demand. Nevertheless, the European Commission, also in the recent countries recommendations, keeps...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the link between flexible pay systems (FPS) and labour productivity, with a close look at wage premium determinants as elements disclosing specific managerial strategies. The analysis was conducted on a sample of more than 500 manufacturing firms located in...

The Jobs Act of Matteo Renzi's Italian Government has been announced as urgent structural reform requested by Europe to make the extremely rigid Italian labour market more flexible, in order to contrast the dualism among protected workers and those without protections at all, and to guarantee...

Il Documento di Economia e Finanza (Def) 2014 per l’Italia fotografa un Paese che non cresce e farà fatica a crescere nell’immediato futuro. Annuncia un programma di riforme sul mercato del lavoro e per la concorrenza che hanno impatti trascurabili sulla domanda interna, ma al contempo...